Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-27
A BASE BALL EXPERT.
remarkable Exhibition of Curved Pitching
by TsaBg Wong Foo.
Chicago News


by TsaBg Wong Foo.
Chicago News.
Il is extremely proba BE that when the
Detroit base ball clue again faces the
Caicagos it viii meet with such terror in
the pitchers box IS has never before been
saown in base ball circles. This new
move threatens 10 completely revolution
lzs 2se ball and will effectually bull the
base ball market. a $4,000 Kelly will
be- drug on the market, while $4,000 or
even $1,000 pitchers will be u1heard of.
It Is said that dir. 3, G. Spglding has seen
c0En!zant OF the new departure for some
time, and that his object in getting
Snort on high-priCed tumolers and inc
UristeS was 10 have IN opening for the
STOCK of ball players which were 10 be
secured from the new field Just discov-
cred.
Last Saturday evening there arrived IN
Chicago 8 consignment OF bones aud SineW
weighing 240 pounds and measuring six
feet seven inches in height. The ship
ment Was mad, direct from the Six Com
pSnies of San Francisco and billed TO the
Hip Lung CompeDy's Clu0-room on Madi-
son street. This collection of bones,
muscle and guile WAS none other than
Tssng Wong Foo, an athletic cody from
the village of .Kwachu, in the PROVINCE of
K.8ngtsn, ana js-n0w g skilled base ball
pitcher. Tssug Wong Foo went directly
tOE1e HIP Lung club rooms, where he
wss met by number of Chinese sports
and several gentlemen who had been
invited to see the phenomenon. His
keeper, however, refused TO allow him TO
exhibit his skill, claiming that after
the long Journey MS charge needed rest,
ana tEas ne could not afford to injure so
valuable piece Of property.
Through sn Interpreter it was learned
thar Tsang Foo had been shipped
. her- TO be sold to the Chicago ball club.
The price to be paid, the interpreter said,
was SI075, the conditions being that the
Chicago ball club should ever sfterward
own him for the playing season of each
year, and that during the other periods of
the year Tsang Foo should revert back
10 the Six, companies 10 be rented TO
dime museum. The Chinese Six Com
psnieS, explained the interpreter, had for
many years imported coolies for work in
mines, laundrIes, and other places where
cheap work was desirable. The right of
ownership to these coolies had not been
conceded by many untutored natives of
panles were compelled TO proceed with
considerable care, and were frequently
subjected to no small amount of annoy
nee. 10 the National League the Six Com
0anieS at first saw a rival, but latterly an
agreement had been entered into whereby
the two corporations were placed on the
best of terms. TIE Six Companies, con-
trolling nearly loo, 600 coolies, at once
sent out IN order for twenty of the Z, :,
muscular AND least intelligent men mat
could be found. Chinese professor,
after some research, discovered that the
art Of CuTving q ball in the air was known
during the time of Confucius, and that it
wss merely primitive form of the art
which had been causing tops to travel
uphill in Chine for the last 1900 years.
Aided by these discoveries the professor
p once put twenty men into practice at
curving q ball according to the regulations
OF the National Base Ball League. The
men soon attained wonderful proficiency.
After three months Of steady practice.
Isang Wong Foo was picked out as the
best OF the lot and 81 once placed on the
market and shipped to Chicago. The
other nineteen viii be forwarded soon.
Yesterday afternoon the big pitcher was
brought ont in Hip Lungs COCkroaCh pit
and prepared to show what be could do
Three posts mad been erected in a line
Ten feet apart. In line with them wss g
nail half driven into an oak plank. Tsang
Foo took his position few feet from the
drst post. He then looked over his left
shoulder three times and then, throwing
his hesd around until he looked squarely
behind MIN, he at the same time deIiv-
cred the ball. With hum like buzz
top the ball gracefully curved aroundthree
posts, SGd then, taking q straight shoot,
hit the nail squarely on the head. Four
times TSang Foo sent the ball cavorting
sTOund the posts ana on to the nail. The
last time the nail WAS driven down even
with the plank, at which Tsang removed
his cap and bowed to the grand stand,
taus uniquely siguifylng that the batsmsn
was out. The neW-pitcder repeated this
Oper ton twice, at which he eXpectorated
on MS hands and sat down, to show that
the opposing side had been retired. After
! short exhibition of left hand pitching,
which was nearly as good as his right
srm work, he received q pan of rice and
was sent to bed. All who saw him work
yesterday united in propouncing him s
phenomenon. Although standing SIX feet
seven inches in height, his arm above the
elbow only measures eight inches in cir
conference. He has record of having
pitched fourteen hours without resting.
He Will play under the name of Mike
Murphy Auson is said to be greatly
p,es'ed with him.